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Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Riley McGuirePublish date:2025-04-23Pages:226
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814215869ISBN-10:814215866UPC:9780814215869Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, AmericanBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCJJV0M29K

In Dysfluent in Fiction, Riley McGuire unspools a literary history of vocal disability in the nineteenth century, arguing that this underexamined literary trope helps us to understand vocal hierarchies that still structure our present. Adopting the term "dysfluency" to show departure from normative expectations of pace, pitch, and fluency, McGuire reveals how dysfluent speech populates an enormous number of nineteenth-century texts and played a formative role in the lives of some of the period's most influential writers. Dysfluent in Fiction examines anglophone literature during the long nineteenth century in both England and America by authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bront?, Lewis Carroll, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Frederick Douglass. Examples of dysfluencies across genres include lisping lovers, a baby-talking fairy, a mute detective, various disabilities in narratives of enslavement, and more. These representations show how disabled speech was both stigmatized and celebrated in ways that clarify our contemporary response to the spectrum of human articulation and that are a vocal corollary to current notions of neurodiversity. Dysfluency's power, McGuire contends, lies in its denial that a single mode of articulation is possible, let alone desirable.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814215869ISBN-10:814215866UPC:9780814215869Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Modern, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, AmericanBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCJJV0M29K
Riley McGuire is Assistant Professor of English at Worcester State University, where his teaching and research focus on nineteenth-century British literature and its intersections with theories of disability, sexuality, and sound.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press

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